speech cliches

The paper focuses on the description of the genre of video apology, its forms and linguistic features. This genre has taken shape over the last decade and functions in the sphere of networked public discourse characterized in the paper. The popularity of on-camera apologies is increasing and attracts the attention of specialists from different spheres. This necessitates a linguistic comprehension of video apologies viewed as a polycode genre. The material under analysis comprises more than 25 video clips posted online over the last 10 years.

The article presents the results of a study of the genre parameters of the preamble to the Constitution of the Russian Federation and preambles to the constitutions of the republics that are part of the Russian Federation. The following aspects are considered as genre parameters (genre­forming factors): (a) rele­vance to the text of a law of a certain sub-­genre type. (b) subject matter. (c) communicative func­tions. (d) subject composition (images of the author, addressor and addressee). (e) spatio­-temporal and other circumstantial characteristics.